GERMANS TAMPER WITH RELIEF SUPPLIES.
STEAL FLOUR AND SUBSTITUTE - SAWDUST. f> HIGH MORTALITY PRODUCED BY THE MIXTURE. Times. (Received 11 p.m.) LONDON, March 28. A correspondent states that the Germans hampered the food supplies the American Relief Commission sent to Roubaix, intercepting several train loads and substituting German rye and flour containing 30 per cent, sawdust for American flour. The substitute produced an indigestible, putty-like substance, which caused so many deaths that the gravediggers were unable to dig sufficient graves.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16502, 30 March 1917, Page 5
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